Things that make us go... hmmm 🤔

Pretty sure nobody else cares about this but:
A groupbuy I bought into switched processors on the PCB to the RP2040 during production, then moved the majority of the coding effort to a non-QMK firmware and started developing a closed-source commercial front-end to that other firmware.

Typical keyboard group buys do two levels of exploiting open source:

  1. sell keyboards
  2. hoard wealth and contribute nothing but just enough code to get the keyboard to work in QMK.

This was a new more advanced form of open source exploiting:

  1. sell keyboards
  2. hoard wealth
  3. make half-assed port to QMK
  4. focus the majority of support/development on new firmware and a commercial GUI tool instead of improving QMK or the other firmware.

Anyway, that’s why I’m selling a Lulu. It still looks like a great split keyboard for anyone who doesn’t care about this stuff. I’ve worked on open source software for twenty years and it just pisses me off.

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